Fifi Leigh
Men’s 15 KM Mass Start Biathlon:
This men’s biathlon involves 30 men, race in 5 laps, and stopping at 4 shooting ranges. The top 3 are Norway’s Boe, France’s Fourcade, and Germany’s Peiffer. Korea slides into first place, followed by Slovenia, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. Korea’s Lapshin is in the lead until Norway’s Boe takes over the lead. The shooting ranges have 5 targets to shoot. After the end shooting range, Germany’s Lesser and Germany’s Doll lead the way, while Sweden’s Lindstroem, Norway, and Germany are catching up. After the 3rd shooting range, Fourcade, Schempp, Lesser, Eder, and Moravec are the top 5 leading the way. The top 5 consists of two Germans, an Austrian, French, and Czech. As they near the finish line, France’s Fourcade wins Gold, Germany’s Schempp wins Silver, and Norway’s Svendsen wins Bronze. It was very close between Fourcade and Schempp because the both crossed the finish line at around the same time that it appeared to be a tie. But Fourcade won by a hair, in which they displayed the slow motion instant replay of both skier and the enlarged area of their feet stretching out toward the finish line proved which foot or ski crossed first.
I suddenly noticed that time at 2:22 pm. At around 2:30 pm, my TV screen was freezing up and lagging. The screen suddenly went black. I called Cox Communications because I couldn’t watch anything. I had to reboot my box to restart the TV. During that time, I missed about 15 minutes. When the TV came on again, the biathlon was finished. I was watching the replay of the scene that I missed. The Cox person told me that other people in my area were having similar TV problems. I had one hour break, where I worked on another video.
At 5 pm, the 2-man Bobsled race started. Canada was in the lead, before Latvia took over the first place position. Great Britain is in 2nd place, followed by Canada, and Germany. During Run 2, USA 3 is in first place until Germany 2 take over first place position. Then, Germany 3 takes over 1st place from Germany 2. Switzerland is in 2nd place until Germany 2 is pushed down to 2nd place. Germany 1 is in 3rd place, Lativa 2 is in 4th place, and USA is in 24th place. Therefore, the top 4 are Germany 3, Canada 1, Germany 2, and Great Britain 1.
